Bombay Modern: Arun Kolatkar and Bilingual Literary Culture Volume 23

by Anjali Nerlekar

Anjali Nerlekar's Bombay Modern is a close reading of Arun Kolatkar's canonical poetic works that relocates the genre of poetry to the center of both Indian literary modernist studies and postcolonial Indian studies. Nerlekar shows how a bilingual, materialist reading of Kolatkar's texts uncovers a uniquely resistant sense of the "local" that defies the monolinguistic cultural pressures of the post-1960 years and straddles the boundaries of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810132737
• ISBN13: 9780810132733
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"